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HP announce Quality Center upgrade

HP has unveiled products to help enterprise IT managers better prioritise projects and manage requirements for the business. For instance, HP integrated Quality Center 10.0 (HP QC) with Project and Portfolio Management (PPM), which will enable IT managers to see the number of events, incidents and defects that occur in a project to ensure business needs are met and projects are finished within deadline. Quality Center software is used to manage software quality assurance processes, automate software testing and support defect management.

The enhanced integration will also make it possible for IT departments to identify low-value projects and reduce investment and labor in such projects. Added integration between Quality Center 10.0 and HP Universal Configuration Management Database (UCMDB) 8.0 can also help customers centralize and standardize processes around best-practice frameworks, such as ITIL, HP says. This new version of UCMDB is integrated with 17 products across HP’s Business Technology Optimization (BTO) portfolio, including Business Availability Center 8.0, Operations Manager i-Series, Network Node Manager i-Series Advanced and Service Manager.